| Abstract: |
Rice is important in the diet and cuisine of Southeast Asia (SEA), past and present. It is also significant in the discourse of the Austronesian dispersal during the Neolithic period. However, it was critiqued that the tendency of archaeology of early agriculture is to treat time as chronological, rather than as a lived experience. This paper is a preliminary exploration on the temporality of the people in Island SEA as reflected in their rice agriculture. Specifically, the following question are addressed: a) How is the temporality of the people represented in ethnography? b) How is time treated in dealing with the archaeology of early agriculture? c) Including available literature on climate and environmental variations, can we deduce their effects on rice agriculture and the temporalities of the people involved in rice cultivation? This paper also assesses the possibility of incorporating "taskscape" into interpreting the archaeology of early agriculture in SEA.
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